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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
WRAT
GORT
Vr
Syntax
2. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Frank Smith
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Derived Score
3. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Universal Screening
Six basic types of syllables
Combination
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
4. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Diagnostic Teaching
Comprehension
Auditory Processing
Cognition
5. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Standard score
Diphthong
Morphology
Texas Education Code 28.06
6. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
V >
Consonant
James Hinshelwood
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
7. Open syllable
V >
Prefix
Curriculum referenced tests
SBOE
8. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
MSLE
Raw score
Chall's Stage 1
9. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Expressive language
Reading Comprehension Support
Sight Words
Sound Symbol Association
10. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.
Keith Stanovich
Funding
Standard deviation
ESL
11. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Ability
Attention
IEP
Texas Education Code 28.06
12. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Letter naming Chart
Ability
Prefix
Academic Achievement Tests
13. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Letter naming Chart
Open Syllable
Syntax
ALTA
14. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Semantics
Morphology
V >
15. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Auditory Learners
Norm-referenced tests
WRAT
SBOE
16. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Curriculum referenced tests
Accuracy
Diagnostic Teaching
CTOPP
17. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Kinesthetic
Modification
RTI
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
18. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Multi-Sensory Approach
Raw score
Achievement test
Towre
19. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
The Norman Conquest
Samuel T. Orton
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Greek layer of language
20. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Ability
Semantics
Dyslexia
Base Word
21. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Great Vowel Shift
Stanine Scores
Semantics
Attention
22. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Stanine Scores
Norm-referenced tests
The Norman Conquest
Vowel
23. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Norm-Referenced Test
Syllable
Morphology
VC
24. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Impulsivity
Multi-Sensory Approach
Consonant Digraph
Standard score
25. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Latin layer of language
Linguistic Method
Phonics approach
Sight Words
26. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Combination
ADHD
Matthew Effect
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
27. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Digraph
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Standardized test
Universal Screening
28. Wide Range Achievement Test
WRAT
Direct Instruction
WIATII
Universal Screening
29. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Semantics
Open Syllable
Derived Score
Academic Achievement Tests
30. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Texas Education Code 38.003
NICHD
GORT
Age equivalent
31. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
NICHD
Accuracy
Orthography
V >
32. Feeling through fingertips
Great Vowel Shift
Derivative
Accent
Tactile
33. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Trigraph
Phonemic/ decodable words
Middle English
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
34. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Social language
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
MSL
VV
35. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Reliability
IDEA
RTI
36. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
[-'le
Auditory Processing
Anna Gillingham
Matthew Effect
37. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
CTOPP
Top-down Reading Approach
Great Vowel Shift
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
38. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Oral Language
Mastery level
Accommodation
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
39. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Orthography
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Composite Score
Tactile
40. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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41. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Latin layer of language
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Samuel T. Orton
42. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Profile
Progress Monitoring
Criterion-Referenced Test
Comprehension
43. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
IDEA
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Top-down Reading Approach
GORT
44. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Social language
MSLE
Letter naming Chart
45. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
RTI
46. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Six basic types of syllables
The Norman Conquest
Reliability
Morphology
47. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Syllable
Phonemic/ decodable words
Accent
48. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Comprehension
Derivative
Chall's Stage 4
49. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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50. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Matthew Effect
Suffix
NICHD
WIATII